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Antpitta
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Grallariidae is a family of smallish suboscine passerine birds of subtropical and tropical Central and South America known as antpittas. They are between long, and are related to the antbirds, Thamnophilidae, and gnateaters, Conopophagidae.
Species
Chestnut-crowned Antpitta
species
Гралляриевые (лат. Grallariidae) — семейство небольших воробьиных птиц субтропиков и тропиков Центральной и Южной Америки. Длина тела у его представителей составляет от 10 до 20 см в длину. В семействе находится 53 вида в четырёх родах.
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Grallariidae is a family of smallish suboscine passerine birds of subtropical and tropical Central and South America known as antpittas. They are between long, and are related to the antbirds, Thamnophilidae, and gnateaters, Conopophagidae.
The antpittas were formerly placed in the family Formicariidae. Beginning in 2002 a series of molecular genetic studies found that Formicariidae, as then defined, was non-monophyletic. In 2008, the American Ornithologists' Union reorganised the genera to create monophyletic families and moved the antpittas to their own family Grallariidae. This family now contains 68 species in one large and four fairly small genera.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antpitta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.